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Re: SET FSYNC command?

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Grant Finnemore <gaf@ucs.co.za>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Date: 2000-05-31T10:43:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> > If SHOW PG_OPTIONS; is executed, one of the lines is
> >  o NOTICE: nofsync=0
> > now, SET PG_OPTIONS TO 'nofsync=1';
> > SHOW PG_OPTIONS;
> >  o NOTICE: nofsync=1

> The syntax is unnecessarily obscure and arse-backwards :-(.

No kidding.

Actually, since yesterday you can disable fsync in a multitude of ways:

postmaster -F
postmaster -o '-F'
postmaster --enable-fsync=off
SET ENABLE_FSYNC TO OFF;

but feel free to not care because after all ...

> Once the WAL revisions are done the whole issue will go away anyway,


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